u/felixrex3

At this point the redstone aspect of my five year old handbuilt city project is becoming more and more central to it even if all of the work is basically invisible being below ground--even playing in creative getting all of the circuits to work is the most challenging aspect of the game as they grow more complex, but I enjoy figuring it out on my own (I only had to get help when I independently discovered quasi connectivity before the neighbors complained about the loud cursing) and it adds a figurative and literal whole layer of depth to building and decorating plus the realism of having a utility going on. Eventually all of these powerlines, which now meet in a room under a random intersection in the geographical center of the city, will go from that room in a large tunnel (at least 15 2x1 tunnels for the individual powerlines) all the way to the port of the city, to a Battersea type power station, in which I hope to be able to build a large switchboard that controls all of these aspects individually and by groups.

Pretty standard building but since it’s located on the boulevard and right outside 11th Street Station I dedicated the entire ground floor to a retail oriented commercial space, with extra high ceilings and bigger windows (with concrete columns and beams “holding up” the apartments above), a back-door entrance with a WC and a ramp leading to a basement with several storage spaces and an office. The apartments above are 4 two-room suites per floor all sharing a single WC down the hall, so not great, but still code compliant🤷‍♂️ the store has unlimited potential though, since the east part of the South Side transitions to middle class north of 9th Avenue there are no underground tenements and the bank is already anchoring higher status businesses with the working poor living on top, this will transition to the same vibe on the streets but with 6ish floors tall two-beds with private WC buildings with full redstone lighting but made with increasing effort and quality of materials as development advances northward.

This is the area of the railway terminal where the two double-track tunnels that run under the Grand Boulevard arrive to platforms located below the station itself and separated from northbound platforms which are at ground level. This building is basically the Cathedral of the City, in-game it has been under construction for 2o years, in real life I have worked on it sporadically but steadily every year since 2021, even with this section and many others finished anf five years into its construction I doubt I'll entirely finish this build this year. With that said, well over half of the building is perfectly operational, but the several different roads, ramps, tunnels, and railway mainlines to every cardinal direction make it an incredibly complex build that still has to have a coherent flow that can be observed in every large metropolitan railway terminal in the world (so I can't just do whatever)

Its basically a generic bank building, it has a large banking hall with teller windows on the main floor, with desks for financial operations on a raised basement below and managerial offices on the second floor above. Below the basement, a secret lever gives access to a massive blast resistant vault, with space to hold hundreds of stacks of precious blocks, that is virtually impenetrable from the outside. The building is decorated in the typical imposing and lavish style of bank branches of the early 20th century because the intersection of 9th and 20th has to have a little more than just tenements going on. Light and power is provided by the redstone grid, and the water closets on every floor are connected to the city sewers.